1.0116^10000 ≈ 100000 Journalists tend to just think of it as "a lot more", but since they didn't specify the base of the exponential we can at least find a wa

1.0116^10000 ≈ 100000 Journalists tend to just think of it as "a lot more", but since they didn't specify the base of the exponential we can at least find a way to make the article technically correct. There are fun classes that admit incomparable values, such as the Surreal games. If they'd said "the game {1 | -1} is exponentially more than { | }" then it'd be impossible to find a base to make the statement true. There's lots of fun to be had with this sort of math, as you know.